NARUTO: RISE OF A NINJA ARTICLES

October 30, 2007 - Wait! What's that? A licensed game that doesn't suck? It must be a full moon or something because the latest Naruto-branded spin-off property courtesy of hugely talented Ubisoft Montreal is really good, fun and very pretty to boot. In fact, it offers one of the more interesting takes we've played on the old-fashioned adventure brawler in a long time. Sound too good to be true? Maybe a little bit - it's not perfect, but it is chock-full of the good stuff.

October 30, 2007 - Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that NARUTO: Rise of a Ninja, based on VIZ Media's NARUTO(TM) animation series and exclusive to the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, will have the voices by the official NARUTO Japanese cast available post-launch as free downloadable content on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

October 29, 2007 - The Naruto anime is among the most popular in both the U.S. and Japan. It's only natural for game publishers to invest some cash to turn such a hot property into a videogame. To date, the result of translating Naruto into a videogame has not been positive with almost no great titles on shelves. That changes with the release of Ubisoft's Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, without question the best Naruto game to date.

October 15, 2007 - Naruto: Rise of a Ninja arrives on 360 in just a few weeks and fans are already salivating for what could be the best Naruto game to date. Now there's even more reason for fans to be excited. Originally, Ubisoft stated that The Xbox Live multiplayer would feature ten playable characters from the popular anime. As it turns out, there will be eleven characters. Rock Lee has just been added to the roster and we have first details, screens, and video.

October 12, 2007 - Online fighters are not new to the 360. That doesn't mean there isn't room to expand on the traditional formula. While gamers will find that standard 1v1 quick matches in Ubisoft's Naruto: Rise of a Ninja , it's the tournament mode that will have gamers coming back for more. Rise of a Ninja offers an open tournament in the Forest of Death Exam.

October 4, 2007 - Naruto, one of the most popular Japanese anime brought to America in the past decade, has been turned into a videogame numerous times. So far, Naruto hasn't found much critical success with titles from a variety of developers and publishers. Ubisoft is hoping to curb that trend with Naruto: Rise of a Ninja.

September 21, 2007 - When a game as big as Grand Theft Auto IV gets delayed to '08, you'd expect the holiday season to look slimmer. That is not the case this year. In fact, the loss of GTA IV just means a dozen AAA games are coming instead of a baker's dozen. This glorious wealth of promising titles means gamers have a lot of options from now until the end of the year. But once you've picked up Halo 3, what else is worth spending your money on? We picked 20 games coming this fall worth checking out. Enjoy the most stacked fall season we've ever seen in gaming. Have fun shopping.

July 11, 2007 - Naruto: Rise of a Ninja represents the first next-generation game to feature the popular, spiky-haired martial artist, and also happens to be an Xbox 360 exclusive; something just announced a Microsoft's E3 2007 conference. We got a chance to go hands-on with the game, testing out a few fights and exploring the town. The game fuses together the fighting genre with extensive adventure and action-RPG elements. The demo started off in Konoha where Naruto was free to hop around to his heart's content. He could run up walls, sprint down streets, interact with the impressive number of neatly cel-shaded NPCs, pull himself up to rooftops and grind across drainage pipes.

July 10, 2007 - While we're not sure exactly what Microsoft will be announcing, it seems Gears of War PC is somewhat certain. If you haven't been browsing around the interwebs over the last few days, you probably missed the video that surfaced. The clip, titled "Gears of War on PC," originally published and quickly pulled from gamevideos.com but thereafter uploaded to YouTube, had one scene with the PC version of an achievement unlock pop up at one point in addition to Marcus Fenix battling a Brumak. What's a Brumak, you ask? Well, if you've played the Xbox 360 version, you'd know him as that huge monster with rocket launchers, the coolest looking enemy in the game, that you mysteriously don't get to fight after escaping from Marcus' family home.

May 23, 2007 - Naruto is the #1 anime on Cartoon Network. That success on television has not translated to videogames. To put it kindly, the Naruto games released to date have not been spectacular. Ubisoft hopes to change that with Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, an Xbox 360-exclusive title coming this fall.

May 16, 2007 - This year, Xbox 360 owners will be given a taste of Naruto for the first time. Developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Ubisoft Montreal, Naruto: Rise of the Ninja will allow gamers to experience Naruto's epic tale from the series' beginning.